Re: A museum in a long forgotten country

Posted by Guscha On 2013/12/10 15:45:06

Thanks Roger. Alternative to the impressive steam-driven Big Boys from Union Pacific and Henry Ford and his gasoline engines, the Romanian museum offers a third way: a Stirling engine. Invented and patented in 1816 the idea survived until today but lives in the shadow of combustion engines and sometimes even at the bottom of the sea.
Next to it is displayed another true piece of history. The straight-lined design of an International Harvester single-cylinder four-cycle 10 HP engine with transmission wheel bears witness to bygone days of unrivalled soundness.

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